Alice Boyle

First day of reading week and it is sunny & several degrees above freezing! For the first time in months, I feel that winter might someday be over!

So sorry. If only teaching didn't involve the assessment part! I spent yesterday marking exams and reflected on why it sucks so bad; we feel responsible when people don't learn anything.

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EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.

There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Thanks for feeding my lazy curiosity! That is super cool!

so cool! but why become nocturnal if you are an ibis? (just read the write-up, not original paper... apologies if you already explained there)

YouTube video by MercerReport RMR: Seven Day Forecast

today if *finally* warmed up above freezing! I kept on thinking of one of my favourite Rick Mercer skits: "what are you going to do when its plus 1?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkDv...

“I’m sorry you are dealing with xx. What is a reasonable time frame for you to complete xx?”

The pleasure was mine! Please send me some reading!

Can’t decide between the chicken, the roadrunner, or the Araripe Manakin!

Super cool seminar from @kristymferraro.bsky.social today at @westernu.ca Biology! I get asked by ecosystem ecologists about the role of birds in ecosystem processes… she had answers.

SK compiled a great list of all the things that are horrible about AI. Well worth the read!

Second ms acceptance in one week? No way… that only happens to other folks

Edge of Lake Huron: frozen ice to the horizon, blue sky, sparkling snow, snow covered dunes in foreground

Some days, the sun shines and everything seems just fine

Sounds great! And *gorgeous* photos too!

oh YEAH! Ornithology + the Yucatan in December??? Count me in for #IOC2026! If I haven't met you IRL, let's meet there!

Is it ok to be happy about a recently-accepted publication while the US is self-destroying itself? asking for a friend...

nice! but (ahem) the breeding ranges are not all contained in the USA...

We must invite you out here!

So sorry! I could probably go to some event every day if I had time

One of the two galleries and the music was inspired by work done at the severe weather lab at @westernu.ca

Here is a snippet of the viola piece, written by Emily, a MS student and violist on the left

It is so easy to live in an academic bubble but so great when I remember to participate in all the cool things happening on campus! Tonight, art opening at the Macintosh gallery with lots of great art and a viola quartet!

hello peeps! If you happen to live in Kansas or nearby, and are interested in how novel grazing technology (remote-controlled cattle!) have advance conservation goals in economically viable ways, come to our workshop!

And that is the end of the story. Thanks for following along!

Well, actually, there are some other cool things too. There is this tiny endemic golden frog that lives in the terrestrial bromeliads… an endemic carnivorous sundew plants… hard table rock that gives the Tepuis their shape… and the super spunky cliff flycatchers. We loved it all.

There are no signs, no guard rails, no gift shops or light shows. Just an *amazing* spectacle surrounded by forest.

Kaieteur Falls is the tallest single-drop waterfall in the world (apparently). UNLIKE basically every natural wonder I have been to, it is almost completely undeveloped. There is no road. The only people there with us were the other 10 people on the charter flight and 1 ranger.

On the TWELFTH day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, 12 TOURISTS TOURING… (yes, ONLY 12–at one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world!)

#Guyana #birds #birding #NaturalHistory #12DaysOfGuyanaChristmas